Bemgba Pillass Agber

A Corpus-based Analysis of the Phraseological Patterns and Frequency of Lexical Verbs in Nigerian and British Englishes

This study presents a quantitative corpus-based comparison of phrasal verb usage in Nigerian and British Englishes, using data from the International Corpus of English (ICE-Nigeria and ICE-Great Britain). The analysis is against the backdrop that Nigerian English users underuse o...

A Corpus-based Analysis of the Phraseological Patterns and Frequency of Lexical Verbs in Nigerian and British Englishes

This study presents a quantitative corpus-based comparison of phrasal verb usage in Nigerian and British Englishes, using data from the International Corpus of English (ICE-Nigeria and ICE-Great Britain). The analysis is against the backdrop that Nigerian English users underuse o...